The CS 100 Newsgroup gives students the chance to pose questions about   the technical content of  the course. It will be monitored closely by the Teaching Assistants who will try to offer timely answers.The  principles of Academic Integrity apply to Newsgroup activity. So for example you must not post fragments of your nonworking programming assignment code and ask for help. Instead, you should seek clarification of the underlying concepts, perhaps by  pointing to a lecture example or to a section assignment problem that you do not understand. Here is how to proceed:

I. On a Windows Platform:

1. Start Netscape.
2. Click on ‘Communicator’ and select ‘Newsgroups’ from the drop down menu. A newsgroup window should appear.
3. Click on ‘File’ and select ‘Subscribe.’ On the window that appears, make sure the server is ‘newsstand.cit.cornell.edu’. If it is something else, click ‘Add Server’, choose New Server (NNTP) and then type in the above server name.
4. In the newsgroups that appear, double click on ‘cornell’ and then on ‘cornell.class.’ Then select the newsgroup ‘cornell.class.cs100’ by double clicking on it followed by ‘OK’. You are now subscribed to the newsgroup.
5. The messages posted can be seen by double clicking on the newsgroup title. To post a message, right click on the newsgroup title and select ‘New Message.’

II. On the Macs in the Carpenter Lab:

1. Double click on the hard drive icon, followed by ‘Bear Access f’ and ‘MT-NewsWatcher.’
2. Double click on MT-NewsWatcher. Select ‘Shared’ and create a folder on the desktop.
3. Type in ‘newsstand.cit.cornell.edu’ as the news server, and ‘postoffice.mail.cornell.edu’ as the mail server.
4. Fill in the blanks in the window that appears.
5. After all the newsgroups appear, select ‘cornell’ followed by ‘cornell.class’ and ‘cornell.class.cs100’

For further assistance, please ask the consultants in the lab in Carpenter Library.